Scar tissue
A woman's decline and death from Alzheimer's disease, told by her philosopher son, chronicling its impact on the family: a heart attack for the father, depression for the one son, a marriage breakdown for the other. Lots of reflections on the process of aging and dying, including the thought that having inherited her genes he, too, may end that way. By the author of Aysa
Print Book, English, 1994
1st American edition View all formats and editions
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York, 1994
Domestic fiction
199 pages ; 22 cm
9780374254285, 9780374527693, 0374254281, 0374527695
29185146
"First published in Great Britain in 1993 by Chatto & Windus"--Title page verso